POULTRY NEWS

Poultry farmers in the district are asked to test the feed and drinking water before feeding to the birds.

A release from the Agromet Field Unit of Veterinary College and Research Institute here and Regional Meteorological Centre, Chennai, said that post-mortem observations in the birds brought for diagnostic purpose at the Poultry Disease Diagnosis and Surveillance Laboratory in the institute revealed that the death of birds were due to E. coli infection.

The survey, carried out for the British Free Range Egg Producers' Association (Bfrepa) to coincide with British Egg Week, found 52% of respondents said they always bought free-range eggs and 28% said they regularly shopped for them.

HYDERABAD: Advisory body Poultry India launched the second leg of its protein awareness campaign in Telangana on Saturday to raise awareness regarding the alarming levels of protein deficiency among Indians.

That was reported in a recent press release by the Catalan research institute dedicated to agri-food research & development (IRTA), headquartered in Barcelona, Spain.

Efficient use of nutrients

Regarding nutritional conditioning, tests in broiler chickens revealed that the use of diets that are limiting in specific nutrients during the first days of life improves the efficiency of use of such nutrients later in life.

A new study, published in Poultry Science journal, showed that adding Silica+ to feed significantly improves animal growth performance and litter quality.

It has been concluded by a team of researchers at the University of Guelph that the inclusion of 200 ppm of Silica+ supplement in feed significantly improved weight gain and FCR in turkey production, offering potential economic benefits to turkey producers.

That would be our conclusion based on the per capita disappearance and retail prices published by USDA which we use to calculate real per capita expenditures (RPCE).

RPCE uses the exact same data as the demand indexes developed many years ago by Professor Glenn Grimes with one exception: RPCE does not use a specified elasticity of demand but simply allows the negative relationship between price and quantity to be reflected in the product (ie. multiplication) of those two variables.

The higher output of poultry meat has been stimulated by growing domestic consumption and export demand.

Domestic consumers have been replacing other meats, including their favoured pork products, with chicken as it is perceived as healthier and cheaper. Poultry meat consumption was almost four per cent higher in 2014 than 2013, rising to 27.5 kilograms per capital.

In most foreign productions breeding of birds is concentrated on a set of small farms, and slaughter is carried out at the large enterprises. However in Russia, the practice is that breeding, slaughter and production of chicken products, is generally concentrated in uniform farms. Poultry farms are enterprises of ‘closed type’ according to operating veterinary health regulations. Breeding of chickens for slaughter is quite a fast process: from laying the hatching egg to slaughter, less than two months is required.

With the additional slaughterhouses, the Brazilian Association of Animal Protein (ABPA) expects Brazil to export 15,000 tonnes a year, representing 31 per cent of the 48 000 tonnes imported by Malaysia.

Enabling the four new plants is the result of a mission from Malaysia to Brazil in March 2014. Since then, the Ministry of Agriculture, Livestock and Supply (MAPA) has been concentrating efforts to proceed negotiations and expand into the market of that country, considered important for Brazilian agribusiness.

South Africa is close to signing an agreement to allow 65,000 tonnes of poultry imports from the United States, a special envoy for the African Growth and Opportunity Act (AGOA) said on Wednesday, sealing a deal agreed in June.

South Africa imposes "anti-dumping" duties of above 100 percent on certain chicken products and industry groups said removing those import barriers opened a market which had been closed for the last 15 years.

The Chief Executive Officer of Boris B's Farms and Veterinary Supplies Ghana Limited, Mr Boris Baidoo, has called on government to help make the poultry sector attractive to appeal to all segments of society, including fresh tertiary graduates.

Production methods have changed in the last ten years, as producers have embraced the integrator production model. The report says approximately 60-70 per cent of all operations use the integrator model, while the remainder are smaller backyard operations.

Poultry farm owners would directly be allowed to participate in the tender process for supplying eggs to noon meal centres in the State if the DMK comes to power in the State, DMK treasurer M. K Stalin said in Namakkal on Tuesday.

He was in the district as part of his ‘Namakku Naame’ campaign. He interacted with poultry owners and members of various poultry associations.

The new law, which was introduced in December 2014, was passed by both the Californian Senate and Assembly last month.

It is now awaiting the final signature of the state governor Jerry Brown before passing into law.

The law, "SB-27 Livestock: Use of Antimicrobial Drugs", which is expected to come into force in January 2018, will prohibit the administration of medically important antimicrobial drugs to livestock unless ordered by a licensed vet through a prescription or veterinary feed directive.

The "Code of Practice for the Care and Handling of Hatching Eggs, Breeders, Chickens and Turkeys" has been devised by Chicken Farmers of Canada, Canadian Poultry and Egg Processors Council, Turkey Farmers of Canada, Canadian Hatching Egg Producers and the National Farm Animal Care Council (NFACC).

“With a moderate expansion in production this year and exports now running about 20 per cent under last year, the US consumer will be forced to deal with 6 per cent more chicken than last year,” said Rich Nelson, Allendale Inc. chief strategist.

As exports are dominated by lower value products, there will continue to bean excess of dark meat at the grocery counter. The picture for 2016 is still not expected to show any improvement.